Re: [patch] stpcpy.3, stpncpy.3: Correct history

["Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" <mtk.manpages-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>]

Hello Ingo,

On 05/08/2014 01:23 PM, Ingo Schwarze wrote:
> Hi Michael,
> 
> Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote on Thu, May 08, 2014 at 11:55:36AM +0200:
>> On Wed, May 7, 2014 at 10:33 PM, Ingo Schwarze <schwarze-mcycREo4Un4@public.gmane.org> wrote:
>>> Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote on Fri, May 02, 2014 at 03:58:36PM +0200:
> 
>>>> the patch seems more or less okay to me, but given that The AmigaDOS
>>>> compiler is the merely the oldest instance you could find, I'd prefer
>>>> a slightly more open wording.
>>>> How would this be:
>>>>
>>>> [[
>>>> --- a/man3/stpcpy.3
>>>> +++ b/man3/stpcpy.3
>>>> @@ -76,9 +76,11 @@ function is thread-safe.
>>>>  .SH CONFORMING TO
>>>>  This function was added to POSIX.1-2008.
>>>>  Before that, it was not part of
>>>> -the C or POSIX.1 standards, nor customary on UNIX systems, but was not a
>>>> -GNU invention either.
>>>> -Perhaps it came from MS-DOS.
>>>> +the C or POSIX.1 standards, nor customary on UNIX systems.
>>>> +It first appeared at least as early as 1986,
>>>> +in the Lattice C AmigaDOS compiler,
>>>> +then in the GNU fileutils and GNU textutils in 1989,
>>>> +and in the GNU C library until 1992.
> 
>> Just fixed: s/until/in/
> 
> Actually, what i intended to express with that "until" was:
> 
>   "in the GNU C library at least as early as 1992"
> 
> Glibc development started in 1987.  Clearly glibc didn't have stpcpy
> before 1989, or early textutils/fileutils wouldn't have had their
> own copy with a 1989 FSF Copyright.  The glibc ChangeLog says
> Roland McGrath fixed a bug in stpcpy in 1992, and *after that*,
> the file has a 1992 FSF Copyright.
> 
> That doesn't strictly exclude stpcpy may have appeared in glibc
> in 1989, 1990, or 1991.

Ahhh got it now. I changed 'in' to 'by'. (Das deutsches Wort 'bis'
kann auf englisch entweder 'by' oder 'until' sein. 'By' für 
eine Sache, die _an_ einem bestimmten Zeitpunkt abgeschlossen ist, 
'until' für eine Sache, die _dauert_ bis zu einem bestimmten 
Zeitpunkt. Ganz normale Fehler von deutsch nach englisch; I should 
have spotted it already ;-).)

Mfg aus Muenchen,

Michael
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